I think the fact we never find out one way or the other what happened with the Olivia's swap/kidnap is one of the most interesting changes for S4. Even more so when you consider all the little changes it spawns.
One that caught my attention was a future reference in 4x17 where alt!Linc says he's been blown up before. Now, obviously with them never crossing over to take back Peter then alt!Linc never got blown up by Sally's fireball ability in Central Park, so how did he end up burnt to a crisp? A popularly posited alternative for the new timeline is that he got hurt during the Joshua Rose case, at either Olivias were swapped but her superhearing wasn't working due to powers still latent or that there was no Olivia to warn them, either way so Lincoln was still checking out the apartment when it went kaboom. It's actually a shame we can't confer more from that detail but nothing ever seems to add up one way or the other in favour of what happened to Olivia in the new timeline.
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Date: 2015-02-04 12:35 pm (UTC)One that caught my attention was a future reference in 4x17 where alt!Linc says he's been blown up before. Now, obviously with them never crossing over to take back Peter then alt!Linc never got blown up by Sally's fireball ability in Central Park, so how did he end up burnt to a crisp? A popularly posited alternative for the new timeline is that he got hurt during the Joshua Rose case, at either Olivias were swapped but her superhearing wasn't working due to powers still latent or that there was no Olivia to warn them, either way so Lincoln was still checking out the apartment when it went kaboom. It's actually a shame we can't confer more from that detail but nothing ever seems to add up one way or the other in favour of what happened to Olivia in the new timeline.